Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of India Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, George C. McGhee, Elbert Mathews, and T. Eliot Weil

64 5389 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 5/5 Memorandum of Conversation M.A. 36 DATE: January 27, 1951 SUBJECT: Indian Ambessador's Call Januery 27: Personal Message from Mr. Nehru PARTICIPANTS: The Secretary Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Ambassador of India Mr. NeChee, Assistant Secretery, Itr. Mathewe, SOA COPIES TO: Mr. Weil, 80A s/s, s/A, a, PF, UNA, CIA, DRN, NXA, 30A New Delhi, Karachi, Moscow, London, Taipei u. s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-61120-1 The Indian Ambassador called at 10 ofelock and remained approximately half an hour. She said she brought "warm greetings* from Itr. Nehru and from Sir Girja Shanicar Eta jpai, Seoretary-neneral of External Affsirs, who had told her I had been vory meh in their thoughts 8,5 I voriced at my "arduous task She said things had happened since the Prime Minister had given her his nessage to the in Paris, but he wented me to tmow that whatever he had done was inspired by complete sincerity; that he and his government hed as their objective the friendship of the United States; and that there was no intention to thwart the US but a genuine belief in the possi- bility of establishing peace in Kores through negotiations. Mademe Pendit gaid the Prime Minister had sent a personal meseage to Chou En Lai on January 23 and she had brought along pertinent extracts from this nessage ao well as sopies of e *clarification" of certain points included in counter- proposals unde by the Chinese Communists to the UN political commttes. The excerpts from Mr. Sebru's meseage to Chou En Tai which Mademe Pendit handed me (copy attached) comprise para- graphs in which Nr. Nehru said he found among all classes of people an overwhelming desire for pesce, a widespread fear of wer, end centemplation of re-armament-- "vicious circle" from which they wanted to escape by means of a negotiated DECLASSIFIED TRONAN settlement E.O. 11652. Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) 5-14-78 3. ARCHAVES CHATIONAL RECORDS AND marger Dept. wu 77.77 of Stote letter. Dute 5-25-2 Es SERVICE E